Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
The Shining Path killed babies and small children whose cries could give away the location of their camps to the army. Shining Path commanders warned women to make sure their children did not cry, because the military could easily locate them. When a child cried a lot, generally because of …
During a massacre in the community of Hierba Buenayoc, female Shining Path terrorists mercilessly butchered babies, arguing that it was difficult to raise them and that they should kill them. An 8-year-old witness witnessed how they picked up the babies like rabbits and butchered them. This act exemplifies the extreme …
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